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The operatic singer Leila Mégane was born Margaret Jones in Bethesda, Caernarvonshire in 1891. She made her first solo appearance at the age of sixteen and soon afterwards received her first contract to sing in concert This was followed by successes at both local and national eisteddfodau and her renown in the next few years led to her entering the London Royal Academy of Music. At the end of her time at the Royal Academy of Music Margaret studied for a further six years in Paris under the world-famous singer Jean de Reszke and it was de Reszke who advised his talented student to adopt the name Leila Mégane. Under her new title, Leila received her first professional contract while still at Paris, which was soon to lead to worldwide renown and international tours. In 1924 Leila married composer and musician Thomas Osborne Roberts, with whom she had worked professionally for some time and would continue to do so by popularising several of her husband's song compositions. Thomas Osborne Roberts died in 1948. In 1956 a scholarship bearing Leila Mégane's name was established to aid young Welsh singers studying at the Royal Academy of Music. Leila died in 1960.
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Papers, [early 20 cent.]-1979, of or relating to the contralto Margaret Jones (afterwards Roberts) (Leila Mégane), Pwllheli, and her husband the composer and musician Thomas Osborne Roberts.
Arranged at NLW as follows: Leila Mégane manuscripts; T. Osborne Roberts manuscripts.
NLW MSS 15281C, 15284-15310: Mrs Effie Isaura Osborne Hughes, daughter of Leila Mégane and T. Osborne Roberts; Purchase; February 1980.
NLW MSS 15282-15283: Mrs Effie Isaura Osborne Hughes; Bequest; August 1996.
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A typescript copy of Leila Mégane's autobiography included in the 1996 bequest, together with eisteddfod programmes and other miscellaneous items included in the 1980 purchase are NLW ex 1763-1764; two albums of photographs and a printer's block and plate have been transferred to the Department of Pictures and Maps.
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Papers, [early 20 cent.]-1969, of or relating to Leila Mégane, including typescript copies of her autobiography, 1946-[c. 1960], letters addressed to her, 1914-1960, papers relating to Jean de Reszke, 1933-1959, a journal, 1957, and scrap-albums, [early 20 cent.]-[c. 1958].
Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 15281-15301.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15281C.
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A typescript copy with autograph revisions, additions and notes, 1946-1947, of 'In the Springtime of Song', the unpublished autobiography of Leila Mégane.
See also NLW MS 15282C.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15282C.
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A typewritten transcript, [c. 1960], by Effie Isaura Osborne Hughes, of NLW MS 15281C, incorporating her mother's corrections, additions and notes.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15283E.
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Letters, 1934-1949, to Leila Mégane concerning the proposed publication of her autobiography. Among the correspondents are Eric Johns (1), 1937, Gwilym Richard Jones (1), 1934, Caradog Prichard (1), [1930s], Robert David Rowland (Anthropos) (1), [1930s], and Count John Francis Charles de Salis (1), 1935. Also included are a foreword to the autobiography by Sir Percy Loraine, 1934, a list of photographs for inclusion in the book, and four letters, 1955-1956, concerning its serialization in the Caernarvon & Denbigh Herald & North Wales Observer, November 1955-April 1956.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15284E.
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Over one hundred and fifty letters, 1916-1959, to Leila Mégane relating mainly to her singing career and including letters from Sir Granville Bantock (2), 1934, Lilian Baylis (1), 1935, Benjamin Grey Davies (2), 1923-1936, Edward Tegla Davies (1), 1953, Walter Johnstone-Douglas (5), 1921-1956, Benno Elkan (2), 1945, Franklin Engelmann (1), 1955, Frances Louise Lloyd George, Countess Lloyd George of Dwyfor (14), 1945-1948, Lady Megan Arfon Lloyd George (2), 1945-1946, Otto Hermann Kahn (3), 1923-1933, Count John McCormack (1), 1937, Robert Owen, Croesor (1), 1954, Robert Williams Parry (5), 1948-1949, Nansi Richards (Telynores Maldwyn) (1), 1959, Sir Landon Ronald (1), 1934, Richie Thomas, Penmachno (1), 1953, Emlyn Williams (10), 1951-1956, Thomas Nefyn Williams (2), 1958, and Sir Henry Joseph Wood (1), 1934, with notes and comments concerning the correspondents added by Leila Mégane on many of the letters. Letters, 1920-1960, to other individuals relating to Leila Mégane include four to T. Osborne Roberts and one to Frances Louise Lloyd George, Countess Lloyd George of Dwyfor (ff. 226-241 verso).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15285E.
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Letters to Leila Mégane, in French, from Jean de Reszke, tenor (44), 1914-1923, and, in English, from his wife Marie de Reszke (1), 1930, relating to business and personal matters, with notes added, 1956-1958, by Leila Mégane.
See also NLW MS 15286C.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15286C.
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Typed annotated transcripts and English translations by Heulwen and Hedydd Isambard Owen, Abersoch, 1956-1959, of the letters in NLW MS 15285E, with notes added, 1956, in the hand of Leila Mégane.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15287E.
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Letters and papers, 1933-1959, concerning Jean de Reszke in connection with the proposed publication of Leila Mégane's autobiography. They include letters to Leila Mégane from Walter Johnstone-Douglas (4), 1956-1958, permits from members of the de Reszke family to publish the correspondence of Jean and Edouard de Reszke (4), 1956-1957, a review of Clara Leiser, Jean de Reszke and the Great Days of Opera (London, 1933), and miscellaneous notes, 1958-1959, by Leila Mégane.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15288D.
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Twenty-four letters of sympathy, 1948, to Leila Mégane on the death of her husband, T. Osborne Roberts (ff. 1-32), together with letters and testimonials to T. Osborne Roberts, 1930-1948 (ff. 33-41), letters to Effie Isaura Osborne Hughes, daughter of Leila Mégane, relating to her mother (6), 1960-1968 (ff. 42-47 verso), and miscellaneous correspondence (5), 1919-1966 (ff. 48-54).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15289B.
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Eight letters of introduction, 1924, written by Marion Morgan Kemp in Rome on behalf of Leila Mégane in connection with her visit to the United States of America.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15290C.
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Thirty-four letters, 1917-1922, mostly in French, from admirers in France to Leila Mégane following her performances at the Opéra Comique, Paris, including one, 1920, from Jean de Reszke (f. 14), with notes added in the hand of Leila Mégane.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15291C.
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Thirty-seven letters, 1923-1930, from children in Wales to Leila Mégane, with a note in her hand (f. 27).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15292B.
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A notebook containing a journal kept by Leila Mégane during her visits to Rome and Paris in 1957.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15293E.
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Papers of Leila Mégane, [1948x1960], including a typescript with revisions and additions in her hand of 'The Parting', being an account of the life and death of her husband, Thomas Osborne Roberts (ff. 1-15); additional notes in her hand relating to his death (ff. 16-20); typescript and autograph copies of an account of her conversations with Dame Nellie Melba concerning Jean de Reszke (ff. 21-25); and her observations on life, death and the arts (ff. 26-33).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15294B.
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A volume containing brief notes by Leila Mégane on buildings in Rome written after her second visit to Rome in 1918 (ff. 1-4 verso); and lists in her hand, 1951-1956, of gifts she made after the death of her husband, T. Osborne Roberts (ff. 5-9 verso, 10 verso-11 verso), and of items given to her early in her singing career (f. 27).
The volume, according to an inscription on f. 1, was given to her by Marion Morgan Kemp in Florence, 1916.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15295E.
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A scrap-album compiled by Leila Mégane, [c. 1958], containing photographs, postcards, press cuttings and notes relating to her career, family and friends, 1916-1958, and including a card from William Evans (Wil Ifan), 1958 (f. 3), the receipt for the first hundred guineas paid to Jean de Reszke for her tuition, 1920 (f. 30), and papers relating to the Leila Mégane Scholarship Trust Fund (ff. 7 verso-10, 15).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15296E.
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A scrap-album compiled by Leila Mégane containing press cuttings, 1925, 1955-1956, relating to her life and singing career, in particular a series of articles about her from the Caernarvon & Denbigh Herald & North Wales Observer, November 1955-April 1956 (ff. 1 verso-23 verso).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15297C.
Frances Stevenson (1888-1972) was the long-term secretary, mistress and eventually (from October 1943) the second wife of the Liberal statesman and war time leader David Lloyd George (1863-1945). Following his acceptance of an earldom in January 1945, she became the Countess Lloyd-George of Dwyfor.
Frances Louis Stevenson was born in London in 1888 of mixed parentage. As a child, she displayed a distinct passion for the Greek and Latin classics, a preoccupation which fired her with enthusiasm to secure a scholarship to Newnham or Girton College, Oxford. She did not achieve this ambition, and proceeded from Clapham High School, armed with a London scholarship, to Royal Holloway College. Following graduation, she taught at a Wimbledon girls' boarding school, and was soon recommended as a suitable person to coach Lloyd George's youngest daughter Megan (1902-1966), who had apparently displayed some backwardness in elementary subjects.
A subtle, elusively feminine personality (who became known as 'Pussy'), Frances took up her new position in 1911, and then soon began the historic liaison with Lloyd George, then the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Rejecting an offer of marriage from a rising civil servant, she remained at Lloyd George's side during the Marconi crisis which threatened to destroy his career. Throughout the period of the first world war, Frances displayed considerable stamina which complemented Lloyd George's dynamic vitality. She became a considerable power in her own right behind the scenes at home, and accompanied Lloyd George to Italy after the Caporetto disaster.
Frances remained intensely loyal and supportive to Lloyd George throughout the rest of his life, and it was she who was responsible for organising the building of their country home called 'Bron-y-de' at Churt in Surrey, with Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook) as their close neighbour. She never lost her faith in Lloyd George throughout the 1920s and 1930s, and, when war came at the end of 1939, she attempted to secure governmental office for him in Churchill's administration. In the meantime, in 1929, Frances gave birth to a daughter Jennifer who became Jennifer Longford upon her marriage. During the 1930s, too, she undertook the mammoth task of organising Lloyd George's most extensive archive of personal and political papers required for the drafting of the War Memoirs. Following Lloyd George's death, Frances in 1949 sold this collection of papers to Lord Beaverbrook. She had displayed the same efficiency in organising a filing system of newspaper clippings and quotations from political opponents to provide ammunition for Lloyd George's political speeches. During her long widowhood Frances continued to live at Churt, somewhat estranged from most members of the Lloyd George family, but involved in an array of ambitious projects, broadcasts and writings to perpetuate her late husband's name and memory.
Frances was made a CBE in 1918. In 1967 she published a somewhat guarded volume of reminiscences The Years That Are Past (London, 1967). In 1971 there appeared Lloyd George: A Diary by Frances Stevenson, edited by A. J. P. Taylor. Mr Taylor was also the editor of My Darling Pussy: The Letters of Lloyd George and Frances Stevenson, 1913-1941 (London, 1975).
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A scrap-album compiled, [c. 1958], by Leila Mégane, containing correspondence, press cuttings and other papers, 1911-1945, relating to her career, family and friends, including letters from Frances Louise Stevenson (afterwards Countess Lloyd George of Dwyfor) (1), 1934, Dame Margaret Lloyd George (4), 1919-1935, Dame Helen 'Nellie' Melba (1), 1919, Robert David Rowland (Anthropos) (1), 1934, and Dame Sybil Thorndike (1), [mid 20 cent.], with notes by Leila Mégane.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15298C.
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A scrap-album compiled, [c. 1957], by Leila Mégane, containing correspondence, press cuttings and other papers, 1919-1957, relating to her career, family and friends, and including her engagement contract with the Opéra Comique, Paris, 1919 (f. ii), notes by her on the Delsarte method of acting (ff. iv-v), and a letter from the composer Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) to Jean de Reszke, [early 20 cent.] (f. vii), with notes by Leila Mégane.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15299D.
David Lloyd George, Liberal statesman and Prime Minister from 1916 until 1922, was born in Manchester in January 1863. His father died the following year and his mother took herself and her children to live with her brother Richard Lloyd (1834-1917) at Llanystumdwy, where David attended the National School. He qualified in law in 1884 and began to practice as a solicitor at Cricieth; he became known in his profession as a fierce advocate and an eloquent speaker. Together with his younger brother William George (1865-1967) he set up the family legal practice Lloyd George and George. In 1890 Lloyd George was elected Liberal MP for the Caernarvonshire Boroughs. His interests at this time were mainly those of Wales, including the Disestablishment of the Welsh Church and land reform; he was also prominent in the nationalistic movement Cymru Fydd which was founded in 1886. He also opposed the conduct of the South African war (1899-1902) and the 1902 Education Act. When the Liberals came to power in 1905 Lloyd George became President of the Board of Trade under Campbell-Bannerman and he soon proved himself an exceptional administrator and mediator. In 1908 he succeeded H. H. Asquith as Chancellor of the Exchequer, piloting the Old Age Pension Bill through the House of Commons, and, in 1909, he introduced his controversial first 'People's Budget', which emphasised social reform by raising revenue in novel ways, and which was rejected by the House of Lords. In 1911, he was successfully to introduce the National Insurance Bill. Upon the formation of a wartime coalition government in 1915, Lloyd George became Minister of Munitions, and in 1916 he succeeded first Lord Kitchener, as Secretary for War. On Asquith's enforced resignation in December 1916, Lloyd George became Prime Minister, steering Britain through the First World War and appearing prominently in the subsequent Paris Peace Conference of 1919. In 1921, he carried through the Anglo-Irish Treaty which created an autonomous Ireland. When, in November 1922, the Conservative members of the government took their decision to resign, thus making it impossible to continue the Coalition, Lloyd George also resigned his post as Prime Minister. Though he never held office again, he did however remain politically active for a number of years, even travelling to Germany to meet Adolf Hitler in 1936. He also published his War Memoirs in six volumes in the late 1930s. In 1945, the last year of his life, Lloyd George was created 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor and Viscount Gwynedd. He died at Ty Newydd, Llanystumdwy on 26 March 1945 and was buried near the river Dwyfor. He remained the Liberal MP for the Caernarfon Boroughs at the time of his death. Lloyd George was twice married: his first marriage in 1888 to Margaret Owen, the daughter of Richard Owen of Mynydd Ednyfed Fawr, Criccieth, a prosperous Eifionydd farmer. Despite her husband's political activities in London, Margaret maintained strong links with Criccieth, and ensured that the first language of the home was Welsh. The marriage produced five children - Richard (1889-1968), Mair Eluned, who died in 1907 aged seventeen, Olwen, later Lady Olwen Carey-Evans (1892-1990), Gwilym (1894-1967), and Megan (1902-1966). His second marriage, in October 1943, was to his long-standing secretary and mistress, Frances Stevenson.<br>Both Gwilym and Megan followed their father into politics, and Gwilym held a number of ministerial posts at Westminster between 1942 and 1957. Megan was MP for Anglesey as a Liberal, 1929-1951, but she joined the Lloyd George family group of independent Liberal MPs at the constitutional crisis of August 1931. She served as the committed president of the tenacious Parliament for Wales campaign throughout its duration from 1950 until 1956. Her politics moved to the left in the 1950s, she joined the Labour Party in April 1955, and she was Labour MP for Carmarthen from 1957 until her death in 1966. Like her mother, Megan served as a Justice of the Peace in Criccieth and was also a member of the town council for many years. The family's affinity with Criccieth, and their interest (rooted in their Nonconformist upbringing) in religion and education, is reflected in the papers they collected relating to schools and chapels in the area.
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A scrap-album compiled, 1919-1929, by Leila Mégane, containing correspondence, press cuttings and other papers, 1917-1929, relating to her career, including letters and telegrams from Walter Johnstone-Douglas (1), 1919, David Lloyd George (1), 1919, Adelina Patti (1), 1919, and Jean de Reszke (8), 1919, with notes by Leila Mégane.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15300E.
Emyr Humphreys (1919-), one of Wales' most significant writers and cultural activists, was born in Prestatyn and brought up in Trelawnyd, both Flintshire. He was educated at UCW, Aberystwyth, where he studied history, learnt Welsh, and where he became a Welsh nationalist. He had registered as a conscientious objector in 1939, and was sent to work in Pembrokeshire during the Second World War. Later in 1944 he was sent as a war relief worker to the Middle East and then to Italy until 1946, where he was an officer with the Save the Children Fund. He married in 1946, the daughter of a Congregational minister. He became a teacher, and taught at Wimbledon Technical College until 1951, and then at Pwllheli Grammar School. He worked for the BBC as Drama Producer from 1955 until 1965, when he became a lecturer in drama at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. In 1972, he left to become a full-time writer. He has won numerous prizes, including the Somerset Maugham Award in 1952 for his novel Hear and Forgive, and The Hawthornden Prize in 1958 for A Toy Epic, and has published articles in Planet and the Welsh Internationalist. He has published over twenty novels, including The Little Kingdom (1946), The Voice of a Stranger (1949), A Toy Epic (1958), The Anchor Tree (1980), A Change of Heart (1951), Hear and Forgive (1952), A Man's Estate (1955), The Italian Wife (1957), Outside the House of Baal (1965), National Winner (1971), Flesh and Blood (1974), The Best of Friends (1978), Salt of the Earth (1985), An Absolute Hero (1986), Open Secrets (1988), Bonds of Attachment (1991), The Gift (1973), Jones (1984), Unconditional Surrender (1996), The Gift of a Daughter (1998), Ghosts and Strangers (2001), Old People are a Problem (2003), and The Shop; a collection of short stories, Natives (1968), and four volumes of verse, Ancestor Worship (1970), Landscapes (1976), The Kingdom of Brân (1979), Pwyll a Rhiannon (1980). His book Emyr Humphreys: Conversation and Reflections (2004), bring his uncollected writings together.
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A scrap-album compiled, 1958, by Leila Mégane, containing correspondence, photographs, press cuttings and notes, 1919-1958, relating to her life and career, including a series of articles about her from the Caernarvon & Denbigh Herald & North Wales Observer, November 1955-April 1956 (ff. 2-27, 28 verso, 29 verso-30 verso), and papers pertaining to the Leila Mégane Scholarship Trust Fund, 1955-1957 (ff. 32 verso, 34-35, 36), with notes by Leila Mégane. The correspondents include Walter Johnstone-Douglas (1), 1958, Emyr Humphreys (1), 1958, and Jean de Reszke (2), 1919.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15301E.
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Miscellaneous papers, 1938-1969, consisting of autobiographical notes, [1950s], by Leila Mégane, including a list of corrections to the series of articles about her published in the Caernarvon & Denbigh Herald & North Wales Observer (ff. 1-6); inventories of her possessions, 1956-1959 (ff. 42-64); and her instructions, [c. 1959], regarding her death and burial (f. 69), together with notes, 1960-1969, by her daughter, Effie Isaura Osborne Hughes, and her sister, Jane Esther Jones Musgrove.
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Papers, 1905-1979, of or relating to Thomas Osborne Roberts, including notebooks containing hymn-tunes and songs, 1919-1945, scores and instrumental parts for various compositions, 1908-[c. 1926], and manuscript and printed copies of anthems, hymn-tunes, songs and Welsh airs, 1905-1950.
Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 15302-15310.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15302B.
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Two notebooks, 1919-1943 and 1922-1943, containing hymn-tunes composed by T. Osborne Roberts, including settings of 'Wedi gadael gwlad yr wylo' (f. 1 recto-verso) and 'Gwlad y cystudd, gwlad yr wylo' (ff. 17 verso-18), words by Evan Rees (Dyfed), and of 'O Tyred, f'Anwylyd, fy Arglwydd yn ddyn' (ff. 2 verso-3), words by William Williams, Pantycelyn, with notes added, 1950, by Leila Mégane.
Leaves excised after f. 16 and at end.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15303E.
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Two notebooks, 1938 and 1945, containing settings by T. Osborne Roberts of 'Seasons' Dreams', words by C. G. Parr (ff. 1-6 verso); and 'Slumber Song', words by George Withers, with a Welsh translation by R. E. Jones (Cyngar) (ff. 7-11 verso).
Leaves excised after ff. 7, 8 and at end.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15304E.
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The full choral and orchestral score with separate instrumental parts, 1910, of 'The Battle of the Baltic', a setting for male voice chorus and orchestra by T. Osborne Roberts of the words by Thomas Campbell, composed for competition at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Colwyn Bay, 1910, together with printed copies of the work in reduced score and of the choral parts in tonic sol-fa notation.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15305E.
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The vocal and instrumental parts, [c. 1925], of a setting by T. Osborne Roberts for solo voice and orchestra of 'Cymru Annwyl, Cymru Hardd', words by Lewis Davies Jones (Llew Tegid), together with a printed copy, 1925, of the work reduced for solo voice and key-board accompaniment.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15306E.
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A volume containing the vocal and orchestral score with separate instrumental parts, 1908, of a setting for solo voice and orchestra by T. Osborne Roberts of 'The Good Shepherd', words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15307E.
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The vocal and instrumental parts, [c. 1926], of a setting for solo voice and orchestra by T. Osborne Roberts of 'Min y Môr', words by Robert John Rowlands (Meuryn).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15308E.
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Manuscript and printed copies, 1905, 1948, of anthems, hymn-tunes and songs, composed or arranged by T. Osborne Roberts, including 'Berceuse' (ff. 8-10), 'I Loved a Lass' (ff. 32-35) and 'A Lullaby' (ff. 53-55), words by George Withers; 'Britain', words by John Ceiriog Hughes (Ceiriog) (ff. 16-17 verso); 'Seren fechan, Seren dlos' (f. 21 recto-verso) and 'Seren fechan yn y nos' (ff. 22-23 verso), words by Thomas Jones, Cerrigellgwm; 'Hiraeth' (ff. 30 recto-verso, 107 verso-108) and 'Y Mynydd' (ff. 78-81), words by Robert Williams Parry; 'The Kingfisher', words by William Henry Davies (ff. 38-40), and 'Y Lloer', words by W. H. Davies with a Welsh translation by R. Williams Parry (ff. 64-65); 'Medi' (ff. 58-61) and 'Y Wlad Annwyl Hon' (f. 133 recto-verso), words by Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn); 'Morfudd fy Mûn', words by Gerald Griffin translated into Welsh by Caradog Prichard (ff. 66-71 verso); 'Nefoedd', words by John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) (ff. 82-90 verso); 'Stars of the Summer Night', words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (ff. 131-132 verso); and 'Ymson', words by Heinrich Heine translated into Welsh by Sir John Morris-Jones (ff. 134-141 verso).
Notes are added in the hand of Leila Mégane on ff. 138, 143, 150-158.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 15309E.
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Manuscript and printed copies, [c. 1926]-1948, of Welsh airs and songs, arranged or composed by T. Osborne Roberts, including 'Acen y Glomen', words by Richard Davies (Mynyddog) (ff. 1-4 verso), 'Y Bwthyn Bach Tô Gwellt' (ff. 5-6 verso), 'Dafydd y Garreg Wen' (ff. 9-12), 'Melin Trefin', words by William Crwys Williams (Crwys) (ff. 13-14 verso), 'Hobed o Hilion', words by John Ceiriog Hughes (Ceiriog) (f. 22 recto-verso), 'Hwb i'r Galon' (ff. 28-29), 'Mae Nghariad i'n Fenws' (ff. 30-31), 'Pistyll y Llan' (ff. 36-39), 'Suo-Gân', words by Robert Bryan (ff. 40-44), and 'Trymder', words by Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) (ff. 45-48).
Notes in the hand of Leila Mégane are added on ff. 32, 44 recto-verso.
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Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 15310D.
Published
A scrap-album compiled, [c. 1951]-1979, by Leila Mégane and her daughter, Effie Isaura Osborne Hughes, containing correspondence, photographs, press cuttings and other papers, [c. 1906]-1979, relating to the life, career and death of T. Osborne Roberts, including a letter, [c. 1949], from his brother, Conway Roberts, to Leila Mégane (f. 25) and a letter and testimonial, 1931-1934, from Sir Granville Bantock (ff. 22, 27 verso).
Notes in the hand of Leila Mégane are added on ff. 1, 17 recto-verso, 18 verso-19 verso, 21 recto-verso, 23, 24-25, 29 verso, 30.
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